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Jeremiah 1:19
They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks to Jeremiah immediately after assigning him to confront the kings, officials, priests, and people of Judah (v. 18). This is the assurance clause that grounds the commission.
The words — יוּכְלוּ (yūkəlû), "they will prevail," is the verb the negation turns: the enemy's assault is certain, but their victory is not.
The thread — The formula "I am with you to deliver you" appears verbatim in Jeremiah 1:8 and echoes in Joshua 1:9; Jeremiah 20:11 restates the same logic in first person under persecution.
Why it lands — The verse does not promise the absence of opposition; it promises the outcome. The reader is asked to hold both facts at once: the fight will come, and it will not win.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
Cross-references
- Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
- Jeremiah 1:8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 20:11 But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
- Psalms 129:2 many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
- Jeremiah 29:25 this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
- Jeremiah 11:19 For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Jeremiah 15:10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 26:11 Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man is worthy of death, for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears!”
- Jeremiah 37:11 When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
- Jeremiah 20:1 When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer and the chief official in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,